A very famous video game from 1996. It is often named "The greatest video game of all time". It was the first video game to have 3-d graphics. It is very unique and they had nothing to base it off of. As far as the game plot goes, Peach calls Mario to her castle for cake but Bowser kidnaps her and seals the star power inside these paintings that you must jump into. You will need to collect 80 stars to save Peach and watch the ending sequence but if you collect all 120 stars, the cannon outside the castle will open and you can blast yourself to the castle roof and you will meet Yoshi there. If you talk to him, he will reward you by congratulating you for completeing fun although at the end of the message, its says "The Super Mario 64 Team". He then rewards you with 100 lives and jumps off the roof. There is a total of 15 paintings and you must collect certain numbeers of stars to open each and some require keys. You can get keys by beating bowser in 3 places.

The most overrated game I've ever played, with crappy graphics, slippery and sluggish controls, frustrating level design, generic storyline and barely any fun. Ok, it was a very early game on the N64, but so what? It has nothing on Banjo-Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64 and Conker's Bad Fur Day. If you're looking for a good 3D platformer, try those games, and forget this one.

A: Do you want to play some Super Mario 64?
B: No way, the game is horrible.
A: OMGWTFBBQ How could you say that!? It's the best game on the N64!
B: You've never played any of the 'good' ones, I suppose.
A: Come on! It was the first game ever in 3D!
B: Nope. There were games on the Super Nintendo which supported 3D such as Starfox and Yoshi's Safari. And if you really want to go back, there's some old vector games which support 3D, such as Speed Freak and Battlezone.

One of the worst Mario games and N64 games I've played. The game has bugs which is somehow so easily overlooked and it gets me mad everytime I play it. I broke all my N64 controller due to getting mad at this game, now gotta wait to get another so I can finish the game and sell it.

Eva: Did you finish Super Mario 64, yet?
Midna: No, because my N64 controllers are broken. Gotta get some more, so I can finish that cheating game!